Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-17
HOME AND FARM.

we contrive to give people whom we
really love very much. We give it by
snarling and swapping. saying sarcas-
tic and biting things; the idlers of the
family being busiest in this occupa-
ton.
-Spiced Fruit: Four quarts of ripe
fruit. three and one-half pounds of
brewn sugar, one pint vinegar, one
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, all
spice. cloves, little nutmeg. Boil
one hour.-Boston Budget.
Excellent Bun: Take one quart
of f1onr, mix with it one-half teaspoon
full of SALT three teaspoonfuls baking
powder, mix thoroughly. Then rub
in one-half cup of butter, four eggs,
one pint of milk. Pour the batter into
gem pans and bake in quick oven. -
Farmer and Manufacturer.
Corn Cake: Yelks of two eggs,
half pint of cream or milk. two tea
spoonfuls of melted butter, one spoon
full of yeast and meal enough for bak-
ing. Let it rise over night and bake
in loaf in the morning. This is for
experienced cooks to try.-Good Cheer.
Walnut Cake: One cup of sugar,
nearly one-half cup of butter, one and
one-half cups of flour, one-half cup of
cold water. two eggs, one-half tea
spoonful of soda, one teaspoonful
cream of tartar, one-half pound of
walnuts- Cut the nuts into fine pieces.
Frost the cake and put whole nuts on
top.-Boston Budget.
Select the frmest and best heads
of cabbage if you wish to save your
own seed. Bury the heads or keep
them in place OF even temperature.
In the spring cut off the stalk to within
two inches of the head. cut a slit in the
head, and put the head in the ground
with the top barely exposed, and it
will then shoot up to seed.
MIR. n. j. Shepherd, of Eldon, No.,
a versatile writer for the press. tells
the Stoine Breeders journal that he
has never been able to see that there
has been any gain in keeping the
growing or stock hogs fat The only
time that it is necessary to have the
hogs fat is when they are ready to
market. 1t is not good plan to stint
the hogs-this is worse than keeping
them too fat; both extremes should be
avoided with breeding or growing pigs
or hogs.
-Cocoanut Biscuit: Remove the
shell and dark skin from fresh cocoa
nut and CRATE it. Simmer it slowly
for half an hour in quart of milk and
then squeeze all the milk from the nut
in a strong towel Add to the milk
one gill of compressed yeast, or one
gill of liquid yeast, a teaspoonful of
salt and flour enough to make a soft
dough; let it rise until light and then
knead and bake in form of small loaves
Or biscuits -India aaapotis Sentinel.
There is no service to which a
| horse can be put that wears him out
so quickly as drawing sleigh. He is
used to the resistance of buggy's
weight and when he finds that he has
nothing, so to speak. be hind him. he
runs through himself People suppose
that because a liveryman charges five
| dollars an hour for q sleigh during the
few days of the sleighing season he is
paying himself for storage of the cut
ter during the rest of the year. That
| is not the case.
Hot Potato Salad: A farmers wife
| writes: This dish is generally served
cold. but the following. made for eat
| ing hot, may commend itself to some,
rs it does to me. Boil half dozen good
sized potatoes, in slightly-salted wa
| ter. and slice while hot or cut into
| small cubes. Chop a small onion very
fine and mix with it. Season with
pepper and a little prepared mustard.
Fry few slices of bacon to nice
brown, remove the meat and into
the fat pour half teacupful of vinegar;
scald. and pour hot over the potatoes,
and serve at once-Farm, Field and
StocLmdn.
There are probably few men who
have fed sheep for fifteen or twenty
years who can say that they found
them in every case profitable; and yet
more men could probably say this of
sheep than could say it of either hogs
or cattle. Fat sheep never advance
to the extreme values occasionally
reached BY other fat stock. but at the
! same time they are less apt to go to
an extreme the other way. In fact,
taking a term of years together. no
other stock shows as great uniformity
in its quotations The man who COM
mands the f1eeces and the -carcasses of
a nice bunch of wethers every year
finds sheep-feeding profitabla-Na-
!